At a conference
in Huntington Beach with Eckhart Tolle, he spoke of a universal pain body, which
is fed by our engagement in the drama of our egos. He suggested replacing pain
thoughts and identifications with ideas of spontaneous healing, by recognising
the pain body rising and replacing those thoughts of an unlived future with the
reminder that this was a pain body experience and you are not your body, you
are your mind. By replacing all pain body experiences with greater
consciousness and easing the unnecessary burdens of the ego the pain dissolves.
Interviewer: You talk in your book about the pain body, both
personal and collective. What do you mean by the pain body?
Tolle: The pain body is my term for the accumulation of old
emotional pain that almost all people carry in their energy field. I see it as
a semi-autonomous psychic entity. It consists of negative emotions that were
not faced, accepted, and then let go in the moment they arose. These negative
emotions leave a residue of emotional pain, which is stored in the cells of the
body. There is also a collective human pain body containing the pain suffered
by countless human beings throughout history. The pain body has a dormant stage
and an active stage. Periodically it becomes activated, and when it does, it
seeks more suffering to feed on. If you are not absolutely present, it takes
over your mind and feeds on negative thinking as well as negative experiences
such as drama in relationships. This is how it has been perpetuating itself
throughout human history. Another way of describing the pain body is this: the
addiction to unhappiness.
Interviewer: Can you suggest a way to eliminate the pain body?
Tolle: Yes. We release it by cutting the link between the pain body
and our thought processes, so that we no longer feed the pain body with our
thinking. Every negative thought has a similar frequency to the pain body and
so feeds it. It cannot feed on positive thoughts. When the pain body no longer
runs the internal dialogue of our compulsive thinking, we become aware of it
directly. We feel the emotion in our body, and so we bring awareness to it, the
light of consciousness. The old emotion is then transmuted into consciousness in
the same way that a fire transmutes everything into itself. So dis-identification
from the emotion and just being in the now moment is the way to stop the cycle
of constantly recreating painful experiences.
Even
Christ had shifts of level consciousness, as will all humans. Ego will try to
prove its existence by reversing the law cause and effect, i.e. the body
determines pain, but as Myrtle Fillmore wrote, ‘I asked God to forgive me
for taking His life into my body and using it so wastefully. I promised God
that I would never, never again retard the free flow of that life through my
mind and my body by any false word or thought; that I would always bless it and
encourage it with true thoughts and words in its wise work of building up my
body temple; that I would use all diligence and wisdom in telling it just what
I wanted it to do. I also saw that I was using the life of God in thinking
thoughts and speaking words, and I became very watchful as to what I thought
and said. I did not let any worried or anxious thoughts into my mind, and I
stopped speaking gossipy, frivolous, petulant, angry words. I let a little
prayer go up every hour that [God] would be with me and help me to think and
speak only kind, loving, true words; and I am sure that He is with me, because
I am so peaceful and happy now. I want everybody to know about this beautiful,
true law and to use it. It is not a new discovery but, when you use it and get
the fruits of health and harmony, it will seem new to you, and you will feel
that it is your own discovery.’
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